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The Sunshine Coast Airport this week began a second Qantas direct morning service from Sydney.Sunshine Coast Airport CEO Andrew Brodie said the additional service highlights the strong demand by business travellers, as the Sunshine Coast becomes an increasingly diverse market, with a rapidly growing business sector. "Connectivity is key for regional airports and the new service will not only be able to deliver international visitors to our region more efficiently, it will mean that local residents can fly out of their own airport at a convenient time and connect directly to international flights out of Sydney," he said. "As any Sunshine Coast resident knows, the vast amount of road works on the Bruce Highway has meant that travelling to Brisbane for domestic and international flights is often impacted by significant traffic delays and disruptions. The new direct Qantas services will save both time and worry for Sunshine Coast travellers planning overseas travel. "The most recent National Visitor Survey statistics indicated that domestic business travel to the Sunshine Coast increased by 5.5 per cent in the year to September 2018, while our own annual departing passenger surveys have indicated growth in the percentage of travellers flying for business has increased from 16 per cent in 2017 to 21
The Go Noosa transport initiatives will be revived during the Easter holiday period which begins on Saturday 6 April and will run for three weeks. Deputy Mayor Frank Wilkie said with Easter Monday on 22 April and Anzac Day on Thursday 25 April, we expect people will extend their holidays so we'd like the free buses and other initiatives to be available over three weeks. "Almost 204,000 locals and visitors used the free buses over the Christmas holidays, saving approximately 100,000 car trips. This greatly reduced traffic and emissions," he said. A free Go Noosa App will provide information on bus timetables, scooter and bike parking, bike paths, walking tracks plus carparking and traffic levels in the Hastings St precinct. The Noosa Heads Lions Park will again be available for additional parking and traffic controllers will help prioritise buses and pedestrians in Noosa Heads and car parking limits at Noosa Junction will be extended from 3 hours to 6 hours to support the Park and Ride service from this precinct. For more information on the trials visit noosa.qld.gov.au/go-noosa. â—?
Sunshine Coast Airport CEO Andrew Brodie with the Qantas crew. per cent in 2019. "This reflects the fact that the Sunshine Coast is now the 10th largest major urban area in Australia and has the second strongest performing economy in Queensland," Mr Brodie said. The new Qantas service will depart Sydney at 10.30am, arriving Sunshine Coast at 12.05pm, enabling it to connect with 15 Qantas inbound flights that arrive
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in to Sydney from Europe, Asia, America and New Zealand in the early morning. It will allow for single-ticket itineraries to the Sunshine Coast for international visitors. Equally, Sunshine Coast residents will be able to take advantage of the 12.45pm departure time from Sunshine Coast Airport, arriving in Sydney at 2.30pm to connect with afternoon and evening international flights out of Sydney. â—?
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Thursday, 4 April, 2019
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